Inga Health Foundation

Inga Health Foundation is a charitable organization registered as a trust in 2006 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. The foundation has a tax waiver for all donations made under Section 80G of the IT Act and has been granted a prior permission FCRA approval. Inga Health is aimed at treating the less fortunate children born with facial deformities like cleft lip and palate. Over the years, Inga Health has grown into an indigenous body, which runs eleven state‐of‐the‐ art cleft centers across the country. Each of these centers is equipped with a highly trained team to provide surgical treatment and follow up therapy all round the year.

Apart from having improved the lives of more than 7,500 children by giving them a normal face, the foundation boasts of having trained over 40 surgeons free of cost both from India and abroad. A strong pan India presence and network of partners across the world in Germany, Switzerland, Peru, Vietnam, Bangladesh and so on has been useful in the exchange of knowledge and surgical knowhow.

In addition to free surgery, Inga Health also provides free stay, food and transportation to all needy patients who otherwise would never have been able to smile. That’s not all, efforts are taken to offer orthodontic care and speech therapy to reintegrate these children into mainstream society. In a country where around 40,000 children are born with this horrible deformity which impairs their self esteem and social activity, Inga Health has done its bit by changing the lives of 2,000 children each year and is committed to encourage and spread awareness of treatment available for facial deformity and to get rid of the stigma that is attached to it.

Inga Health Foundation focuses exclusively in treating the most complex of skull and facial deformities.

Skills required for treating these children are both rare and hard to acquire. It takes several years of training, hard work and commitment to acquire the highest levels of skills and techniques.

This leads to immense emotional, but probably less financial satisfaction. Hence, great emphasis is placed in identifying and training surgeons and team members for the future

Success Stories

Chethan was unable to open his mouth since birth and it became apparent to the family as a serious issue when he was three years old. Till then he was being fed only milk. He lived on small pieces of bun being pushed into his mouth along with milk or coffee. He only weighed 27 kg till 23 years of age ...

CHETHAN

Tujanna Sai was born with Agenesis in her left nostril. This meant that she had a normal right nostril and an inadequate left part of the nose. The condition distressed her parents; in pre-school, their child would be teased. Besides, the parents were embarrassed taking her to social gatherings. Tujanna Sai was first operated ...

TUJANNA SAI

Jaisheela was born with Hemifacial microsomia, a condition in which one side of her face (right) does not grow. Her family did not feel anything was wrong, but began to notice a deformed face when she was three months. At school, mocking by peers and seniors depressed the child and she discontinued her ...

JAISHEELA

Anish is a 2 and half years old boy from Nepal, who presented with a triangular shaped skull in the forehead region (Trigonocephaly). He was referred to our centre in Bangalore as treatment for his condition was not available in his country. At that time he was 1year 10 months old. The triangular shape that you ...

ANISH PANDEY

Tazayun is a child from Kashmir who was born with a flat skull (Plagiocephaly), which restricted his normal growth of his brain. He had a major surgery to recontour his skull under the expert care of Dr Krishna Rao and his team in Bangalore, This will create space for his brain to grow. His eyeballs are now leveled and he looks ...